RFR: 8019470 "Changes needed to compile JDK8 on MacOS with clang compiler"

[Leonid Romanov]

Just to satisfy my curiosity: what are advantages of using clang instead of gcc? 

On Jul 24, 2013, at 2:15 AM, Tim Bell <tim.bell at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone-
> 
> This is a small set of changes to switch from gcc to clang when building on MacOS, and also enable building on MacOS 8.x
> 
> Here is the bug report:
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> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8019470
> 
> Here are the webrevs:
> 
> Hotspot only:
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>  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tbell/8019470/hotspot/webrev.00/
> 
> All of the changes:
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>  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tbell/8019470/webrev.00/
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Tim
>